On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, CM Graff via cfarm-users <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > Continued mention of the need for nearly useless AIX cross platform > testing while not addressing the need for useful netbsd and freebsd > cross platform testing is illogical.
I mat be mis-parsing things, but you seem to be conflating two issues. First, you say AIX is useless. But testing on AIX with GCC and XLC revealed several issues in Crypto++, which is a free and open software project: https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20aix . So I don't think its useless. The second is, you want NetBSD and FreeBSD machines. Maybe even a DragonFly that continually runs out of disk space due to its Hammer filesystem :) That seems like a separate problem. Perhaps you can submit a request for two additional VM's - one for NetBSD/PPC and another for FreeBSD/PPC. Testing on Solaris often produces similar findings. Its like Wakely said, I'd love to get my hands on some Solaris machines for testing. I have a Solaris 11 running on a G5; I need Ultrasparc and Solaris 10 for testing. Jeff > On 10/11/17, Toebs Douglass via cfarm-users > <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: >> On 11/10/17 16:22, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users wrote: >>> I've also found that using unique compilers (XL/C) and unique >>> platforms (AIX) helps make the code more portable and reveal some >>> assumptions made in code. >> >> I too have always found this, and I regard using multiple platforms and >> compilers as an essential step in software quality. _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
